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REPORT ,
REPORT T0: Mayor Carl Zehr & Members of Council
DATE OF MEETING: 2009-10-26
SUBMITTED BY: Larry Gordon Chief Purchasing Officer
PREPARED BY: Larry Gordon, Chief Purchasing Officer (2214)
WARD(S) INVOLVED: N/A
DATE OF REPORT: 2009-10-23
REPORT N0: FIN 09-141
SUBJECT: Quotation - Q09-072 -Two (2) Four Wheel Drive Rubber Tired Turf
Tractors
and
Tender - T09-088 -Supply and Install Dump Body and
Snow and Ice Removal Equipment -Two (2) Units
RECOMMENDATION:
For Information Only
BACKGROUND:
At the Council meeting of October 13t", 2009, Council deferred the recommendation for Q09-
072 -Two (2) Four Wheel Drive Rubber Tired Turf Tractors, to the October 26t", 2009 Special
Council Meeting, pending obtaining additional information from staff as to the need to make this
purchase prior to implementation of the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) as at July 1St, 2010.
Additionally, not withstanding the approval of Tender T09-088 -Supply and Install Dump Body
and Snow and Ice Removal Equipment -Two (2) Units, Council directed staff to confirm the
necessity to purchase this equipment now and if found to be feasible, delay the purchase until
after implementation of the HST in July 2010.
REPORT:
Quotation Q09-072 (Two (2) Four Wheel Drive Rubber Tired Turf Tractors), FIN 09-128 -Fleet
has confirmed with Community Services that a delivery after July 1St 2010 will be acceptable.
Discussions have also taken place with Deboer's Equipment, Elora that delivery of the two
tractors will be after July 1, 2010.
Tender T09-088 (Supply and Install Dump Body and Snow and Ice Removal Equipment on Two
(2) Units), Fin 09-127 -Staff have confirmed with Viking Cives Ltd., Mount Forest, Ontario, that
the equipment will not be delivered until after July 1St of 2010.
The ruling that applies to HST has been confirmed as follows - "The HST would generally apply
to consideration that becomes due, or is paid without having become due, on or after
July 1, 2010 for a supply of goods by way of sale, to the extent that the consideration is for
goods that are delivered, and for which ownership is transferred, to the recipient of the supply
on or after July 1, 2010".
ACKNOWLEDGED BY: Dan Chapman, General Manager of Financial Services and City
Treasurer